Recent & Selected Work
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Interviews, Craft Essays, Fiction, and Hybrids
Poetry & Poem Hybrids
“Vesper Bell with Supply Chain Breakdown” in Southern Humanities Review (.PDF of poem here)
“And All God’s Queer Girls Said Amen” won the 2021 Orison Anthology Award and appears in Best Spiritual Literature 2022
“Teething Biscuits” in the Vassar Review (p. 46 text or 50/100 in .PDF)
“Chili Willow Denouement” in Mom Egg Review
Two poems in Dream of the River LGBTQ Anthology (Jacar Press)
Bobby
Five Lies
Three poems in Qwerty no. 43, Food X Identity:
Read “Horny on Main” here
“Francine Noznice, Grillardin”
Watch video reading of “Recipe: Unidentified Floral Objects” here
“Recipe: Obituary Cocktail” in The Hunger, Issue 10
Two poems in Blue Mesa Review, Issue 43:
“Freelance Ballerina” in SWWIM Every Day
Two poems in Jet Fuel Review, Issue 20:
Mrs. Mencken, 1930—Nominated by Jet Fuel Review for Best of the Net Awards (second poem on page)
“Eclipse (A Haibun)” in perhappened
“Bathsheba’s Algebra” in The Cresset, Trinity 2016, vol. LXXIX
“How It Begins” in Indiana Humanities news
“Errors” in The Cortland Review
“Opening the Cellar Door” in Gulf Stream
“Here at the End of the World, One Needn’t Remember Everything” in 32 Poems
“After Running Four Blocks in a Night Storm” in Cream City Review
“What We Mean When We Say Love” in Puerto del Sol
Creative Nonfiction & Nonfiction Hybrids
“The Burying Kind” reprinted in JMWW Anthology (2013-2022): A Modern Times Anthology
“Brief Report on Rising Reactions” in HAD (Hobart After Dark)
“A Large Volume of Small Nonsenses” in Talking Writing (winner of 2020 contest)
“Elegy with Handkerchief Mask” in Rejection Letters
“The Teeniest _____ You Ever Seed” in HAD (Hobart After Dark)
“Lake Michigan Night” in Sky Island Journal, Issue 13
“The Affidavit of What It Wasn’t” in Spectrum Literary Journal, Volume 63
“Sex and the Single Eight-Year-Old” in Hayden’s Ferry Review
With Our Lungs in Our Hands
Poetry Chapbook published by Red Bird Chapbooks, Dec. 2016
Craft Essays & Interviews
“On Form: A Roundtable with Three Blue Mesa Writers” (Soundcloud podcast w/ writers Ari Laurel and Tess Fahlgren and Blue Mesa Editor-in-Chief Rhea Ramakrishnan)
Craft Interview with Aura Martin
“On Queerness, Neurodivergence, and Nuance: Creating Authentically Complex Characters” in Musing at the Margins: Essays on Craft (Human/Kind Press), ed. Audrey T. Carroll (contact B. for .PDF of individual essay)
Short Fiction
“Undersong” in Cheat River Review
Artist Statement on “Undersong” for Cheat River Review (scroll down)
Note: The website has formatting issues with “Undersong.” Read a .PDF of the original version here.